Arafat Willing to Enter Peace Talks

Yahoo News ^ | 11/2/03 | Mark Lavie - AP

[NormsRevenge]

yawwwwn....

[NormsRevenge]

yawwwwn....

[tubavil]

Absolute satanic insanity. The cycle begins anew for the 5,344,256th time.

[Radix]

I wonder if that terrorist is interested in "piece" talks.

I'd like to take a piece out of him just on general principle.

[Paleo Conservative]

He didn't say anything about acutually making and enforcing an agreement.

[doug from upland]

I would much prefer Arafat be willing to enter this --

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[Lijahsbubbe]

Wow. Look at his face. He looks more strange than ever. Usually his complexion is purple and red, now he looks orange, like he's been in a spray tanning booth. He looks very strange.

[clee1]

I, for one, hope he enters a GRAVE soon... preferrably wrapped up in a pig skin.

[Alouette]

Many Palestinian farmers could not reach their fields, badly damaging the annual olive harvest.

Next we will be hearing how a crackdown on illegal immigration prevents "Mexican farmers" from reaching "their fields" in California.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Arafat has often said he is ready to talk peace, but Israel and the United States are boycotting him, charging that he is tainted by terrorism.

Gee, I wonder why...

[Alouette]

now he looks orange

Must be jaundice of advanced hepatitis

[Prime Choice]

Just like he did in Oslo, right?

Riiiiiiight.

Arafat is neither a man of peace nor a man of his word.

[NormsRevenge]

Meanwhile... FRom Yahoo and Reuters

Hamas Sets Truce Terms, Israel Demands Crackdown

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) - The Islamic group Hamas ruled out on Monday halting militancy in a three-year-old Palestinian revolt but said it could limit attacks to Israeli soldiers and settlers if the Jewish state stopped harming Palestinian civilians.

The declaration by Hamas chief spokesman Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi could set terms in a dialogue sought by Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie on reining in violence in order to advance a U.S.-backed "road map" envisaging peaceful statehood in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (news - web sites) alongside Israel.

"The issue that will be possible to be addressed (with the Palestinian Authority (news - web sites)) is continuing the resistance to the (Israeli) occupation while avoiding civilian casualties," Rantissi told Reuters at a Gaza Strip safe house. "But if the enemy (Israel) does not accept then resistance will continue comprehensively," he said.

Israel insists on an anti-militant crackdown by the Palestinian Authority as required by the road map, a move rejected by Palestinian officials as a recipe for civil war.

"The only way forward remains unchanged. It is adopting the road map's call for the dismantling of the vast terrorist infrastructure by the Palestinian Authority and the incarceration of terrorist operatives," said Dore Gold, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites).

Hamas is sworn to the Jewish state's destruction and its suicide bombings prompted Israeli assassination campaigns against group leaders -- including Rantissi, who barely survived a helicopter missile strike on his car in June.

PALESTINIAN PM REACHES OUT TO MILITANTS

Squeezed between Israeli military sweeps and mounting Palestinian radicalism, Qurie last week invited militants to discuss a cease-fire that might lead Israel to ease its grip on the West Bank and Gaza. Qurie has also been cobbling together a new cabinet mindful of his predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned in September after a unilateral suspension of attacks he secured from militants collapsed in a new round of tit-for-tat violence.

"We are trying to help Abu Ala (Qurie) to avoid the failure of Abu Mazen (Abbas) by offering to stop attacks on civilians if the enemy accepts to do the same," Rantissi said.

Like most Palestinians, Hamas considers some 250,000 Jewish settlers in the occupied territories as legitimate targets, a view rejected internationally. It says only Palestinians who themselves carry out attacks should be considered combatants.

There is a growing Israeli belief that militant groups are exploiting discontent in the occupied territories, where the uprising erupted in September 2000 after peace talks stalled, and that the Palestinian Authority must therefore be shored up. Israel allowed in more than 6,000 Palestinians to work on Sunday, in a tentative easing of sweeping restrictions on movement that were criticized by the army chief a few days ago.

As part of the latest tentative detente, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has been preparing to meet Palestinian officials, and Sharon has said he would welcome talks with Qurie. Qurie said on Saturday he was willing to take up the offer.

[NormsRevenge]

Must be jaundice of advanced hepatitis

Very likely the case.

[JSteff]

He needs to be finished. The time is long overdue for him to be gone. I am bored with him and his predictable lies and evil. Someone need to just end it.

[NormsRevenge]

Top Hamas official Abdel-Azia al-Rantissi talks in Gaza, November 2, 2003. Al-Rantissi said Hamas is willing to stop attacks against Israeli civilians if Israel stops killing Palestinian civilians but the group will continue to target Israeli occupation. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

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What a deal.

[onedoug]

No Arab state in Eretz Yisrael.

EVER!

[Radix]

The Germans know a lot about crematoriums!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Must be jaundice of advanced hepatitis

We can only pray that you're correct...